Hydrocele - repair of waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Hydrocele - repair of at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 84 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 52 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Hydrocele - repair of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	84 days	not published	30 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	170 days	14.7%	407 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	95 days	9.8%	1477 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 95 days marks the national median.

Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away92 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away274 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away227 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away99 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away113 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away12 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away104 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 26 km away120 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Hydrocele - repair of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	151	91	75
2017–18	63	77	70
2018–19	82	105	70
2019–20	132	90	87
2020–21	135	169	113
2021–22	391	216	121
2022–23	129	181	138
2023–24	81	130	90
2024–25	84	170	95

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at The Children's Hospital at Westmead · Hydrocele - repair of across Australia · Hydrocele - repair of in New South Wales